Nature vs. Stress Even with heavy traffic, scenic drives are more calming than jaunts through cluttered metropolitan areas. Driving (via simulation) through a developed six-lane highway rendered participants more easily frustrated than watching the road in traffic-filled but pristine woods.
Smoke Signals Can smoking help the mind? Cigarettes may be helpful in treating serious neurological disorders because nicotine repairs damaged brain function, researchers find. It may even repair memory loss caused by stress on the brain.
Baby No-Stress Motherhood seems to make women resistant to stress. New mothers are calmer under pressure and cope with adversity better, finds a study that compared the anxiety levels of postpartum rats to those without offspring.
